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METHOD OF STIGKING FUR T0 PIBROUS GOODS.

No. 253,160. PatentedJgn. 31,1882.

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NITE STATES PATENT emcee I VILLIAM E. DOUBLEDAY, OF BAY RIDGE, NEWVYORK, ASSIGNOR- TO ELLEN M. DOUBLEDAY, OF SAME} PLACE.

METHOD OF STICK|NG FUR TO FIBROUS GOODS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 253,160, dated January31,1882.

Application filed November 9, 1881.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, \VILLIAM E. 'DOUBLE- DAY, a citizen of the UnitedStates ofAmerica,

residing at Bay Ridge, in the county of Kings.

and State of New York, have invented certain new and usefulImprovementsin Methods of Sticking Fur to Fibrous Goods; and I do herebydeclare the following to be afnll, clear, and exact description of theinvention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which itappertains to make and use the same, reference being had to theaccompanying drawings, and to letters or figures of reference markedthereon, which form a part of this specification.

Figure 1 is a vertical section of a bat employed by me in carrying outmy invention. Fig. 2 is a vertical section of the same bat placed upon ahat-body preparatory to the sticking 2o process. Fig. 3 is an elevationof a machine adapted for use in carrying out my invention.

As I propose in carrying out my invention to use well-known applianceswhich are commonly used in the art of manufacturing hats and feltedgoods, I will give only a brief description ofa felting-machine which isadapted for carrying out that part of my process which relates tosticking the fur to the woven or felted fabric which forms the base ofthe ma- 0 terial to be produced, such machine being shown and describedin Patent No. 95,863,

although I may employ any other machine of similar construction withsuch modification as I propose to make in this one.

Referring to Fig. 3, D is the platen or jigger-plate, to which arapidly-vibrating motion is imparted by means of cranks g, mounted onshaft B, the platen being elevated automatically through the medium ofcam, (not shown,) 0 rock-shaft E and levers E, to permit the feedingforward of the material which is being felted or hardened, this feedingbeing done by means of rollers j j, actuated by a cam and connectingdevices.

In Fig. 1, A represents a conical bat formed of fur, preferably nutria,formed by blowing the same upon a rotated perforated cone insubstantially the manner commonly employed for that purpose. 0 is anouter layer of raw cotton which has been blown upon the hat of (Nomodel.)

fur by the same machinery. In forming this cone I prefer to spread thefur in a thin layer upon a feeding-apron, and place upon the same apron,butin rear of the fur, a thinlayer of cotton, so that the cotton will bedeposited upon the outer surface of the fur by the automatic operationof the machine. After the bat has thus been formed I remove it from theperforated cone, eitherin the condition in which itis formed or bywrapping it with a wet 6o cloth and then removing the bat and clothtogether. This cone is of substantially the same taper and size as thehat-body to which it is to be applied, except that the cone is made asmuch longer than the body as is necessary to permit the lower edge ofthe fur and cotton bat to be turned inward over the edge of the hat-bodyF to form a fur-lined brim of the hat, as is indicated in Fig. 2, andafter the body has been placed within the bat and the edge of the batturned over within the lower edge of the body the two are flattened out,so that the two cotton surfaces ot'the brim come in contact with eachother, as do theinner surfaces of the hat-body between the brim and theapex of the triangular-shaped compound material thus shown; or, whenpreferred, a sheet of thin oiled paper or other suitable materialsuch ascotton cloth-may be placed between the adjacent surfaces of the cottonon the brim.

It will of course be understood that the extreme edge of the bat is ofgreater diameter than that portion of'the hat-body which is adjacent toit after the bat has been turned inward, as indicated in Fig. 3, andthat consequen tly the portion of the bat will be wrinkled or laid infolds when the article has been flattened out, with its inner portionsin contact with each other, which is not, however, a serious objection,as will be explained. I now place a number of these bats and bodiesbetween the bed-plate and platen of the hardener, Fig. 3, and subjectthe same to the rapid vibratory motion of the platen, accompanied byheat or otherwise, as circumstances shall indicate, and, 5 whenpreferred, I place sheets of paper, cloth, or other suitable materialbetween the hat and the bed-plate and platen of the machine. After thisvibratory motion has been continued for a short time, dependent uponcircum- [00 stances and conditions of temperature and moisture, the furwill be found to be stuck to the body of the hat, after which the hat issub jected to the usual scalding process.

It will be found upon completing the scalding operation that the surplusof fur which was produced by the wrinkling or foldingabove mentionedwill come away when the layer of cotton is removed, leaving the hat-bodythoroughly covered with firmly-attached fur; or, when desired, theoperation may be varied by placing the hat-body within the conical hatof fur and cotton, and then cutting oil or otherwise separating thatportion of the bat of fur and cotton which projects beyond the open endof the hat-body, thus forming a ring or band which may be used forcovering the under brim of the hat with fur, such operation beingperformed separately-that is to say, in such case I stick the fur to theouter face of the hatbody, and afterward turn 'the hat wrong side out,place upon its outer face the ring or band of fur and cotton, and stickit separately, having found by experience that in such operation the furcan be made to adhere to and cover perfectly the lower edge of the hatin as satisfactory a manner as such lower edge can be covered by turningthe bat over the edge of the hat-body, as 1 have first described, andmay be able to produce results which are in some respects moresatisfactory than those I can produce by the first-described operation,owing to the fact that when carrying out such first-described method thematerial which is acted upon by the platen or jigger is not of uniformthickness, it being much thicker at the point occupied by the under brimthan at the other portions of the hat, as will be readily understood byan examination of Fig. 2.

While I employ a well-knownmachine-say that represented in Fig. 3-insticking the fur to the felt or other fabric, of which the hatbody iscomposed, yet this operation is not at all analogous inmany respects tothe opertion of hardening or felting, for which such machines areusually employed. In the ordinary use of these machines the platen restswith its entire weight upon a comparatively loose mass of fur, wool, ormixed fibers, and operates to unite them firmly and throughout theirentire lengths into a firm, hard, compact material called felt, of muchless thickness, when completed, than is the bat when thefeltingoperation is commenced; butiin carrying out my invention I so manipulatethe machine that only one end of each of the fibers or filaments ofwhich the fur is composed is attached to the hat-body, leaving the restof the fibers in a light, loose, flowing condition, substantially likethat in which the fur exists upon the animal from which it is taken.

In carrying out my invention either a very light platen must be usedwith a short period of vibration, or else the machine must be soconstructed that the platen cannot rest with its full weight upon thematerial; otherwise, instead of sticking the for to the body of the hat,it (the fur) will be felted not only to the body of the hat, but thefilaments of the fur will be felted to each other, so that they will notflow, and thereby the end sought to be attained by my invention will beentirely frustrated.

I do not in this patent claim anything shown in patent to Hine, May19,1868, nor anything relating to the scalding or sticking of fur bymeans of rollers, nor any other invention except that which is set forthspecifically in the claim hereof, preferring to claim all otherpatentable features in another application which I have filed as adivision of this case. Hence 1 do not claim the process of felting norany of the machinery employed therein but What I do claim is- Theherein-described improvement in the art of making hats which have aflowing nap of fur, the same consisting in applying a hat of fur to ahat-body which has previously been felted and shrunk to the sizeanddensity which it is desired that it shall have when the hat iscompleted, next subjecting the fur bat and body to the combined rubbingand pressing action ofa "ibrating plate, whereby the fur is stuck to thesurface of the previously-felted hat-body, and subsequently scalding thesame, substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

WILLIAM E. DOUBLEDAY.

Vitnesses:

WM. B. ROYCE, CHAS. A. DOUGLAS.

